Road Safety Awareness Campaign for School Students Under LGED’S RIIP-RDP-25 in Barisal and Khulna Division

Road Safety Awareness Campaign for School Students under LGED’s RIIP-RDP-25 in Barisal and Khulna Division

April 2007

75 Mohakhali Dhaka1212, Bangladesh Telephone # 9881265, 8824180 Ext.2115, 2116 Fax: 88-02-8823542, 8823614 Email: [email protected]. [email protected] Website: http://www.brac.net Table of Contents

Page No. INTRODUCTION 1

OBJECTIVES 1

SCOPE OF WORK 1

APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 2

IDENTIFICATION OF TARGET GROUP 3

STAFF AND OFFICE 3

PROJECT INTERVENTION 4 RS Institution Building and Capacity Development at Community Level 4 Selection of Local NGO/CBOs 4 Road Safety Training of NGO/CBO Leaders 4 Suitable IEC Material Developed 6 Flipchart 6 Posters 6 Education for Students of Road-Side Educational Institutions 7 Teachers’ training 7 Students’ training 7 Kick off Event 8

ASSESSMENT 8 Key Findings 9 Walk on right side of the road having no footpath 9 Walking on road in a group 9 Unsafe spots for crossing road 9 Safe crossing road 9 Road safety engineering facilities 10 Night visibility 10 Safe travel by bus 10

DISSEMINATION 10

COORDINATION AND LINKAGE 12 LESSON LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATION 13

Table of Annexes

Title Page No.

Annex- 1 Pictures of Project activities 14

Annex- 2 List of the selected NGOs/CBOs 18

Annex- 3 Participant list of NGO/CBO leaders’ Road Safety Awareness Training 19

Annex- 4 Teacher training schedule and Teachers trained 20

Annex- 5 List with names of covered Education Institutions 21

Annex- 6 Certificate given to teachers received RS Training 25

Annex- 7 Details of kick-off events 26

Annex- 8 Questionnaire: Pre and Post campaign assessment 27

Annex- 9 Highlights of dissemination workshops 29

Annex- 10 Workshop programme 35

Annex- 11 List of workshop participants 36

Glossary

BRAC Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee CBO Community Based Organization DC Deputy Commissioner DRSC District Road Safety Committee DTL Deputy Team Leader EI Educational Institution GC Growth Centre GPS Government Primary School IDTA Institutional Development and Training Advisor IEC Information Education and Counselling IST Institutional Support and Training LGED Local Government Engineering Department MD&RSS Market Development and Road Safety Specialist MOU Memorandum Of Understanding NGO Non-governmental Organization NMV Non-motorised Vehicle PMO Project Management Office Pri. Primary RAC Rapid Action Campaign RDP Rural Development Programme RHD Roads and Highways Department RIIP Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project RPS Registered Primary School RS Road Safety Sec. Section TARC Training and Resource Centre URSC Upazilla Road Safety Committee

INTRODUCTION On March 01, 2006 a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) was signed by Mr. Rainer Kuhnle, Institutional Development & Training Adviser (IDTA), RDP-25 / RIIP-IST, LGED, PMO, Dhaka and Director, BRAC Mr. Ahmed Najmul Hussain for undertaking Road Safety awareness for School Students under LGED’s RIIP-RDP-25 in Barisal and Khulna Division. Accordingly BRAC commenced the project activities on 15.03.2006.

The statistics reveal that Bangladesh has one of the highest fatality rate in road accidents. At least 10 to 12,000 thousand people loose their lives due to road accident every year. Majority of accidents take place on highways. The upazila roads of LGED are not affected by road accidents at present as highways. But after the present widening and repair works, these roads are likely to be scenes of high speed and increased motorised and non-motorized traffic. Besides the new good roads offering better communication will generate trips increasingly of local inhabitants to cities, markets, growth centers etc. for trade, education, business. This will expose the local road users to more accident risks. Their lack of road safety awareness particularly of pedestrians and drivers of rural transports like rickshaws, auto rickshaws and human haulers will be threats to road safety in future unless actions are not taken right now to improve road safety awareness.

This project therefore has been designed and implemented by BRAC to provide road safety awareness to the most vulnerable section of pedestrians i.e., the students of the selected educational institutions situated beside the project roads. Road safety training for local NGO/CBOs was included in the project with a view to develop road safety institutions at local level – a very important need for sustainability of road safety initiatives at grass root level.

An assessment of the impact of this awareness project was carried out in a small scale, which has shown positive results.

OBJECTIVE  To improve road safety awareness of students of educational institutions situated beside selected upazila roads of LGED with a view to reduce their risks of road accidents.  To develop capacity and awareness of local NGOs/CBOs enabling them to assist the communities to plan, manage and maintain their own road safety initiatives and help establish their linkages with road safety institutions and service providers.

SCOPE OF WORK Under the RIIP/RDP-25, LGED is constructing/reconstructing/rehabilitating 106 upazila roads in Barisal and Khulna Divisions. These roads are expected to carry high traffic after completion of the work. Through this project during 5 months from March to August 2006 the students of educational institutions situated within 500 metres at either side of 14 upazila roads have been made aware about safety. Name of the project roads with length, number of educational institutions and number of students are given below:

Barisal Division No. No. of District Upazila Name of Road Length of EI Student Barisal Gournadi Gournadi Bandar – Sarikol 17.20 10 3006 Pirojpur Sadar Pirojpur - Sreeramkati upto Dakshin Jibgram 11.61 11 3228 Jhalokhati Sadar Jhalokhati Bus Station-Manpasha GC upto 10.096 10 2376 Balakdia R&H road Patua-khali Kalapara Alipur GC - via Kalaroa Chapila Bazar 11.957 05 964 Bhola Sadar llisha bus stand Kalghat – Pangasia Bazar 13.10 08 3236 Barguna Bamna Amua Kheyghat – Dauatola up to Pilulia 21.00 18 3389 Bazar Total 84.963 62 16199

Khulna Division No. No. of District Upazila Name of Road Length of EI Student Jessore Sadar Haibatpur – Hashimpur GCC 10.43 09 2086 Magura Salikha Simakhali – Bunagati via Hazrahati 13.80 14 3785 Jhenidah Kaliganj Nirikelbaria – Kaliganj via Naldanga bazar 15.60 15 3420 Kushtia–Rajbari RHD–Panti GC via Kushtia Kumarkhali 16.00 08 1878 Jaduboyra–Sandiara bazaar Narail Lohagora Laxmipasha – Mohajon 13.50 11 3124 Khulna Dumuria Dumuria – Baroria 16.52 07 1245 Bagerhat Sadar Barakpur – Chulkati – Plolerhat GCC 11.90 10 2291 Satkhira Kalaroa Baguri Beltala – Gourahati 10.50 07 2261 Total 108.25 81 20090

APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY Reconnaissance of the 14 project roads was carried out through extensive visits. For this the project staff had to visit these roads, built up areas and villages along the roads, talk to teachers, students, shop keepers and villagers to obtain information about local road accidents, knowledge and behavior about use of road and discuss with engineers / consultants of the particular LGED projects about the road design and engineering facilities to be provided.

Providing training on road safety to teachers and students of educational institutions situated beside the selected project roads is very cost effective. For this the project staff visited selected educational institutions along the road and discussed with the teachers and students. Two teachers from each educational institution were selected to receive training on road safety. 2

For educational institutions having less number of students one teacher was selected. The trained teachers in turn were used to provide road safety training to the entire students of their institutions, using the training flipcharts.

For sustainability of community driven initiatives it has been experienced in the country as well as abroad that local NGOs who live close to local communities and work at grass root level can play major role in improving road safety awareness at community level in the following way: . Through using the flip chart and posters received from this project, they will make different local groups of road users aware on road safety . Would take active role and participate in any road safety activities organized by URSC, DRSC, Road authorities, Police etc. . Will be involved in the implementation of this project on voluntary basis, act as bridge between the community and road safety service providers like URSC, police, LGED, hospitals/clinics, transport associations etc. . Contribute in sustaining road safety initiatives locally with support and sponsorship from local philanthropists, private sector businesses etc. . Be encouraged to apply and become member of URSC in the slot of NGO membership . Will be capable to submit project proposal for improving local road safety to NGO Foundation or other donors/fund providers with technical support from BRAC . Be included in BRAC’s Road Safety-NGO Network and keep constant contact with BRAC for updates on road safety good practices, materials etc. Since it was a community centric project, a certain amount of flexibility in the implementation process had to be resorted for coping with some unavoidable and changed circumstances.

IDENTIFICATION OF TARGET GROUP The review of accidents revealed that lack of knowledge of students about road safety particularly on safe walking and crossing of roads are main reasons of road accidents involving students. Besides, the local community and community based organizations i.e., NGOs and CBOs engaged in various socio economic activities living at grass root level are well placed to make the road users aware about road safety but they are not aware themselves in this regard. Considering the prevailing lack of awareness as mentioned above the following were selected as target groups of the awareness campaign: . Teachers and students of selected road side educational institutions . Selected local NGO/CBOs

STAFF AND OFFICE The following staff assigned/placed by BRAC were involved in the implementation of the project. They operated from the Project Field Office established at BRAC Area Office, Churamonkathi, Sadar Upozila, Jessore and BRAC BDP Patuakhali Regional Office, Shiuli Mansion, Choto Chourasta, DC Office Road, Patuakhali. The Project Head Office was located at

6th floor, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka– 1212, Phone– 9881265, 8824180–88, Ext. 2115, 2116, Fax – 8823542, 8823614, E-mail: [email protected], roadsafety @brac.net:

Mr. A. Najmul Hussain Adviser Responsibility: Overall policy direction, planning, technical assistance

Mr. A K M Khairuzzaman Project Manager (PM) Responsibility: Will lead and manage project team and ensure implementation as per plan

Mr. Abdul Alim Responsibility: Designing, planning and supervision of pre and post campaign assessment of road safety awareness

Mr. Md Shahanur Alam Field Coordinator Based at Patuakhali to coordinate and implement campaign activities in Barisal division.

Mr. Md. Azmot Ali Field Coordinator Based at Jessore to coordinate and implement campaign activities in Khulna division.

PROJECT INTERVENTIONS Road Safety Institution Building and Capacity Development at Community Level Selection of NGO/CBO: It is important to build institutions and develop capacities at community level for undertaking road safety education at large scale and to make it sustainable. Hence the local NGO/CBOs having socio economic activities within the areas beside the selected upa zila roads have been identified following a selection criteria as given below: . Be local organisation having office, staff and executive committee . Having registration / affiliation with appropriate authorities . Have track record of implementing socio economic development activities locally . Not involved in any active party political activities . Willing to work for road safety as member of Road Safety NGO Network A total of twenty community level institutions (one each from 8 roads below 12 km length and 2 each from 06 roads over 12 km length) comprising nine NGOs and eleven CBOs have been selected. List of selected NGO/CBOs is given as annex – 02.

Road Safety Training of NGOs: Two separate residential training courses have been conducted at Barisal and Jessore as described below:

Barisal: The training course at BRAC Training and Resource Centre, Barisal was held from 17 April to 19 April 2006. It was attended by 17 executives coming from 5 local

NGOs and 4 CBOs. The Field Coordinator based at Patuakhali attended the course. The participants reported for training on 16 April 2006.

Jessore: The training course at BRAC Training and Resource Centre, Jessore was held from 22 April to 24 April 2006. It was attended by 21 executives coming from 4 NGOs and 7 CBOs. Mr. Md. Abul Hussain, MD&RSS, LGED Jessore and Mr. Azmot Ali, Field Coordinator, based at Jessore attended the course. The participants reported for training on 21 April 2006.

The idea of this exhaustive training was to develop capacity of the executives of NGO/CBOs in a way so that they can train communities independently at their working areas. Besides, they are expected to actively participate in the project activities particularly in kick off rallies.

Road safety trainers of BRAC have conducted majority of training sessions. However, resource persons from Consultants, Police, BRTA and medical profession have been involved in taking classes on their subjects of expertise. The following resource persons conducted training on the subjects as mentioned:

Md. Mizanur Rahman Asstt. Superintendent Legal Support for TARC Barisal of Police, Barisal. Accident Victim Mr Md. Selim GITEC Law related to Illegal TARC Barisal Use of road Dr. Lubna Jahan BRAC RS Victim’s First Aid TARC Barisal and Medicare Mr. Motiur Rahman Addl. Superintendent Legal Support for TARC Jessore of Police, Jessore Accident Victim Mr. Humayun Kabir MVI, BRTA Traffic Signs TARC Jessore Mr. Abul Hossain GITEC Law related to Illegal TARC Jessore Use of road Dr. Sajedul Alam BRAC RS Victim’s First Aid TARC Jessore and Medicare Mr. A. Najmul Hussain BRAC Community Road Safety TARC Jessore

Road safety trainers of BRAC having completed training needs assessment (TNA) developed this 3 days road safety-training module. The training module and handouts developed in Bangla were used by trainers and given to the participants for their future use. After the training, certificate of successful participation were awarded to the trainees.

Participant list is attached herewith as annex- 03.

On 24 April 2006 German Country Programme Evaluation by BMZ comprising of Dr. Ute Eckhardt, Mission Member, Mr. Peter Palesch, Country Director GTZ, Mr. Christoph Isenmann, Country Director KfW, Dr. Mahbuba Nasreen, Professor, Dhaka University, Mr. Abdus Shahid, Project Director, RDP-25, Mr. Rainer Kuhnle, Adviser IDTA, RDP-25 and other senior officers of LGED, and Consultants visited BRAC Training and Resource Centre, Jessore. They observed a class of the last session of the 3 days training course and appreciated the skill of the trainer and the trainees’ participation. The certificates of participation were awarded to the trainees by Dr. Eckhardt, Mr. Palesch, Mr. Isenmann and Dr. Nasreen. At the end Dr. Ute Eckhardt and Mr. Abdus Shahid addressed the trainees. Pictures on the visit are enclosed in Annex – 01.

Suitable IEC Material Developed The necessity of using appropriate information, education and communication materials for road safety awareness campaign is important. The existing IEC materials of BRAC used for road safety awareness campaign were slightly modified as per project requirement, reprinted, sent to field project offices and extensively used for the project. The flip chart and posters are described below:

Flip Chart: A comprehensive and well-researched road safety training flip chart, complete with trainers guide at the back of each page has been produced. The flip chart having 14 colourful pages provides information and instruction on road vocabulary, types and parts of road, safe walking and crossing rules, dangerous places on road not to use for crossing, consequences of illegal uses of road/footpath/shoulder, traffic signs, road markings, importance of visibility at night, children safety practices, good practices for public transport passengers, needs and ways of post accident Medicare, how to lodge accident information to police and claim insurance compensation etc. The flip charts were distributed to each NGOs/CBOs to enable them to use these for training their beneficiaries and staff on road safety. These were used for training of the teachers and students of the selected educational institutions. The members of URSC, DRSC, LGED officers and consultants were provided with flip charts as well. A total of 350 flip charts were used for this project and 850 more made available to RIIP-IST/RDP-25.

Posters: Posters for road safety awareness are useful as it is big, readable from distance due to its larger fonts and more portable for using in rallies as festoons. 2 existing posters used for road safety awareness campaign by BRAC - one on safe walking and one on safe crossing of road were printed and distributed to educational institutions for using as training materials and for keeping hung within each classroom so that students can benefit from seeing those regularly. These tin mounted posters were distributed to URSC, DRSC, LGED officers, consultants, leaders of local transport associations, selected shops, restaurants and offices for awareness and display. A total of 5084 posters were used in this project and 916 more posters were made available to RIIP-IST/RDP-25. Picture of flipchart’s cover page and posters are given in Annex – 01.

Education for Students of Roadside Educational Institutions The campaign initially covered 126 educational institutions comprising secondary, primary, KG schools and madrasahs. After the campaign started demands for undertaking similar road safety awareness for students came from many other adjoining educational institutions. Considering the eagerness and the benefit, it was decided to bring these additional institutions within the campaign. Consequently the total number of educational institutions covered finally rose to 143.

Teachers’ training: A total of 258 teachers of these educational institutions were put through the planned 2 days long road safety training at venues centrally located beside each project road. The road safety trainer of the project trained two selected teachers of each institution. Only one teacher however was trained from each community primary and KG schools since the number of their teachers and students were much too less. They received the training spontaneously and with lot of enthusiasm. Teachers from few institutions even attended the training before getting permission to do so from their authorities. The training module included local road safety situation, walking and crossing rules, traffic signs, traffic law, first aid, lodging accident information to police, introduction and about how to use IEC materials, and claiming insurance compensation. The project Manager supervised the training to ensure quality. MD & RSS and RSOs attended different training sessions. TEOs and ATOs attended number of the training sessions. The participants were awarded certificates for successful completion of training. Lunch, snack and traveling allowances were given to the participants. Teachers training schedule with number of teachers trained and Certificate are given in Annex – 04 and 06.

Students’ training: The trained teachers imparted road safety training to the entire students of their respective institutions as per plan they made during their training. The teachers told the students to convey these road safety messages to their parents, brothers, sisters, friends and neighbours. A special drive styled as Rapid Action Campaign (RAC) to re-convey the vital road safety lessons like safe walking and crossing road, dangerous places on road, use of road safety engineering facilities, importance of visibility at night, traveling by bus/auto rickshaws safely was undertaken in addition to the lessons imparted to the students by teachers before. Project Field Coordinators conducted the RAC with the help of partner NGOs. Road safety posters and flip charts were used for the RAC. Two posters were provided for each class of the project schools for keeping hung within class rooms with a view to remind the students of rules regarding safe walking and crossing of road. It however may be mentioned that the countrywide strike called by the teachers affected the smooth training of students particularly at some of the high schools. And as a result the quiz competition scheduled to be held among the students on their acquired road safety knowledge could not be held as well. The partner NGOs have been requested to arrange the training that could not be conducted due to the teachers’ strike.

Mohammad Nazmul Hasan of Clas– V, Roll- 3, Gournadi Model Government Primary School was adjudged as Student Road Safety Ambassador. This was in recognition to his acquisition of excellent knowledge on road safety he demonstrated during a visit of the Project Adviser to the school on 01.8.2006. As a token of appreciation and encouragement, he was rewarded with a certificate and Taka 1000 in cash. List of education institutions is given in Annex– 05.

Kick off Event Kick off events were held beside each project road as per plan prepared in consultation with DTL and MD & RSS. The participation was encouraging. Number of participants of these kick off events was 490 in Barisal Division and 372 in Khulna Division in average. Members from different communities, teachers, students, NGO/CBO representatives, Chairman/ Members of Union Parishad and government officers of Upo zilla and District level like XEN LGED, Assistant Engineer LGED, TNO, TEO etc. took part in the kick off events. MD & RSS and RSOs of GITECH attended all kick off events while TL and DTLs attended a few.

The participants of kick off events initially gathered at a ground of local High/Primary Schools where selected speakers discussed road accident problem prevailing in the country, road safety problems of the residents, measures that could be taken locally etc. Local road accident victims were invited to narrate their experiences during these discussions. Audiocassette containing road safety messages and good practices were played through microphone during the events. Leaflets printed with different road safety good practices were distributed to the participants. Training sessions of rickshaw pullers on road safety and distribution of reflective stickers for attaching at the back of their vehicles for visibility at night could be held at 3 places in Khulna division and 1 place at Barisal division during the event. After the discussion the participants joined a road march wearing colourful caps and paraded on the project road carrying placards, festoons, banners with road safety messages and slogans. Besides, posters containing instructions on how to walk and cross road safely were distributed to roadside shops. The participants were served with light refreshments after the kick off events. Detail of kick off events is given in Annex – 07.

ASSESSMENT The objective of the assessment was to appraise the impact of the project. Through assessment BRAC aims to improve its road safety programme and show the benefits of the project to the stakeholders and sponsors. It may however be mentioned that the constraints of extremely short duration of this project, scanty resources added with interruptions like teachers’ strike, 1st quarterly examination and summer vacation were not favourable to the awareness campaign.

Assessment of the level of road safety awareness of students before and after the awareness campaign was carried out through interview using structured questionnaire containing 7 basic questions on safe use of road. Same students were interviewed both before and after the campaign selected from the project schools. Considering the variations in the location, state of repair, vehicular traffic and nature of trips, students of all the selected schools situated beside the 14 project roads were brought under the assessment. In the pre campaign assessment, 300 students were selected at random comprising 150 of primary school (76 girls), 130 of junior/high schools (66 girls) and 20 of madrasahs (9 girls). In view of the closure of junior/high school and madrasah due to prolonged strike of junior/high school and madrasah teachers’, students of these institutions were not included in the post campaign assessment. Hence number of students interviewed after the campaign were 148. The questionnaire used for the assessment is enclosed in Annex – 08.

Key findings Walk on right side of the road having no footpath: During pre campaign assessment 59% said it is safe to walk on left side of the road having no footpath, 36% 100 97 said on the right side and 5% did not 75 reply. None could give reason why it 59 is safe to walk on right side. During 50 36 post campaign assessment 97% 25 5 respondents said it is safe to walk on 3 0 right of the road having no footpath 0 Left side Right side No reply with reason why it is so. Only 3% said it is safe to walk on the left side. Pre campaign Post canpaign

Walking on road in a group: During pre campaign assessment 13% respondents said that it is safe to walk side-by-side while 100 in a group while 45% could not 100 reply. 42% replied correctly 75

without giving reason that it is safe 45 to walk one behind another in a 50 32 line while in a group. 100% 25 13 0 respondents said during post 0 0 campaign assessment that it is safe Side-by-side One behind No reply to walk in a line while in a group. another They could say the reasons as well. Pre-Campaign Post Campaign

Unsafe spots for crossing road: 90% of respondents could not mention any of the 4 unsafe spots i.e., road bend, inter section, bridge, in front or behind parked vehicle included in the questionnaire during the pre campaign assessment. 9% knew bridges and road bends are not to be used for crossing. During the post campaign assessment, 87% mentioned road bend, 55% inter section, 52% bridge and 46% front or behind of a parked vehicle as unsafe spots for crossing.

Safe crossing road: A sequence of four steps is required to be followed for crossing road safely. During pre campaign assessment 43% respondents partially mentioned about Mentioned correctly 0 66 these steps while 57% failed to say anything about these. Mentioned partially correct 43 31 During post campaign assessment only 3% Failed to say 57 3 respondents failed to say anything about these steps. 0 20 40 60 80 Of the remaining 97% respondents 66% mentioned Pre-Campaign Post Campaign correctly the steps to be followed before crossing road safely. 29% respondents correctly mentioned the 2nd, 3rd and 4th step while only 2% could mention about the 2nd step.

Road safety engineering facilities: Four road safety engineering facilities like zebra crossing, foot over bridge, traffic light signal and traffic police post were mentioned in the questionnaire. During pre campaign assessment 85% respondents could not mention even one of these facilities. After the campaign only 11% could not mention any one of these facilities. The remaining 89% respondents could mention about one or more of these facilities. The improvement on this was not as apparent since the project roads are rural having no such facilities present enabling the respondents a practical experience in addition to what has been told to them during the awareness sessions held at their schools.

Night visibility: The

fact that carrying light 99 by pedestrians while Carrying light 28

walking on roads at 75 Wearing light night is safe could be coloured dress0 mentioned by 28% of

0 respondents during the Couldn't mention 72 pre campaign assessment. None 0 25 50 75 100 however new about Pre-Campaign Post Campaign wearing light coloured dress for better visibility at night. During post campaign assessment 99% respondents could mention about carrying light at night and 75% mentioned about wearing light coloured dress while walking at night.

Safe travel by bus: 38% respondents could mention that traveling by bus while sitting on the window-seat keeping/popping hand

and/or head outside is unsafe 100 during the pre-campaign 75 100 assessment. These risks were not 0 known to 62%. During the post 50 62 campaign assessment 100% 25 38 0 respondents could mention about Popping hand/head Risks were not this risk while traveling by bus. outside is unsafe known

Pre-Campaign Post Campaign

DISSEMINATION A total of three workshops have been organised to present the road safety awareness campaign activities and disseminate its impact. The venues of these workshops held on 04, 05 and 07 March were regional training centers of LGED at Jessore, Khulna and Barisal. BRAC gave the key note presentation at these workshops organised locally by the Rural Infrastructure Development Project/RDP – 25, LGED. The workshops were well attended by the participants from different sectors like Divisional/ District civil administration, Police administration, BRTA, Education Officer, Divisional / District/Upazila level LGED officials, school teachers, Union & Pourashava chairpersons, Consultants from ISTC, D&S of RDP-25, RMSU, LGED and NGO representatives of the project area. Workshop programme and list of the participants are attached as Annex –10 and 11. 10

Welcome Address and Project Brief by PD, RDP-25, LGED The Project Director of RDP-25 heartily welcomed everybody and expressed his gratitude for their kind presence and valuable time. He was confident that the cooperation and support of all participants from different sectors/departments would be very useful for Road Safety workshop.

The PD then briefed on the objectives and details of RDP-25 and focused on Institutional Support and Training (IST) component which addresses: (i) Road Maintenance Management (ii) Market Development. (iii) Road Safety (iv) Local Government Strengthening (v) Gender & Women Development (vi) Benefit monitoring & evaluation.

He mentioned that motorized traffic volume increased by 122% at Mid-term survey (July 2007) from Baseline survey period data (August 2004). Transport charges also were reduced by 47% for Rickshaw and 24% for vans. Road safety engineering measures like traffic signs, guard rails, widening of T-junction, bridge rail painting etc. are being provided for road safety under RDP-25 he further added.

Keynote Paper: The Keynote paper was presented by Mr. AKM Kairuzzaman, Project Manager, Road Safety, BRAC, explaining BRAC’s different activities on Road Safety with special references to this awareness campaign undertaken at RDP-25 roadside schools in Khulna and Barisal division.

He described the important contents of road safety training given to the students, teachers and local NGO executives as: (i) Road accident- causes, remedial measures, impact and accident prone areas. (ii) Accident victim support- extrication, first aid, medical support, legal steps, rehabilitation. (iii) Road Engineering awareness- Engineering facilities, traffic signs etc. (iv) Safe traveling- walking along, and crossing road; traveling by public transport etc. (v) Road safety related laws. (vi) Introduction of IEC materials and about how to use those for training (vii) Major Interventions- Community Road Safety Group (CRSG), Road Safety education in educational Institutions, Road Safety Rally. In his presentation he narrated about the fourteen kick-off events took place in Barisal & Khulna Division comprising discussion by selected speakers on Road Safety issues, sharing of experiences by road accident victims and finally taking out colorful processions with placards, festoons, banners and other road safety messages. The most important part of the presentation was about the impact of the project interventions on the awareness level of the students Mr. Khairuzzaman said. The statistics presented have shown that in almost all cases, knowledge level considerably increased. The keynote paper concluded with the recommendations that road safety issues be included in school text books and similar awareness campaigns be undertaken for other LGED roads.

Papers Presented by ISTC Specialists Two Market Development and Road Safety Specialist ISTC, RDP-25 from Khulna & Jessore introduced the Road Safety issues and work plan. They emphasized few points for female

LCS worker on road maintenance such as walking on the shoulder, road crossing, walking at night, and safety for children; safely work on shoulder and slopes wearing bright dress, collecting accident data and so forth.

Remarks of Chief Guest, Special Guests and Chairpersons Deputy Commissioner Jessore was the Chief Guest while DC Meherpur and Kustia were the Special Guests at the workshop at Jessore on 4/3/2007. In Khulna, DC Khulna was the Chief Guest and DC Bagerhat was the Special Guest. In Barisal workshop, Divisional Commissioner was the Chief Guest while DIG Police was Special Guest. The workshops were chaired by SE, LGED Jessore and Barisal.

The Chief Guests and Special Guests during their speech commended LGED for organizing this timely and very important workshop to present different activities and impacts of road safety awareness campaign implemented by BRAC. Needs to include road safety in school curriculum, designing of safe roads, improving awareness of DRSC and URSC, addressing the issues of accident victims etc were highlighted in their valuable remarks.

The Chairs of the workshops observed that with improvement of road condition, MT and NMT increase causing more accidents due to admixture of slow and fast moving traffic and hence LGED has started including road safety in their projects. They exhorted that the lessons of this road safety awareness campaign under RDP-25 and recommendations of this workshop be used to develop and expand action plans of other projects.

Open Discussions The floor was opened after the presentations when lively and stimulating discussions took place and many important points were raised by the participants in all three workshops. The participants’ remarks were mostly on requirements of similar awareness campaign followed by workshop in all road projects, more emphasis on curriculum in textbooks on road safety, designing safer roads with pedestrian facilities etc. Highlights of dissemination workshops are enclosed in Annex– 09.

Pictures of different Project Activities are enclosed as annex – 01.

COORDINATION AND LINKAGE The Project Manager have met SEs Jessore and Barisal, number of XENs of LGED, Consultant staff, Police and BRTA officers at project areas, briefed them on the project and obtained their cooperation.

To involve in the implementation of the project and for commitment, motivation and support to road safety, the Field Coordinators have met TNOs, Thana Education Officers, and LGED’s Upozila Engineers of numbers of upazilas wherein project roads are situated. Their presence and encouragement have contributed to the successful implementation of the project activities.

LESSON LEARNED AND RECOMMENDATION  The impact assessment reveals that awareness of the respondents noticeably improved particularly in their knowledge on walking safely on right of the road, crossing road following the four steps i.e., stop, look, listen and cross and the necessity of being visible at night while walking by carrying light or wearing light coloured dress.  Effective and lasting learning on road safety can be achieved through a combination of teaching methods comprising of delivering text lessons with displaying pictures followed by practical demonstration. Due to short duration of the project this could not be accomplished.  The teachers and students took lot of interest in training and learning the road safety skills since they found these as knowledge and skills for their day-to-day survival. Yet it was difficult to repeat these road safety lessons frequently within the regular class for the extensive syllabus of different subjects they have to cover within the session. If the lessons included in the posters and flip charts are included in the textbooks, teachers would be required to teach these within the school time.  There is high demand of taking road safety awareness activities at district, upozilla and union level. Similar road safety awareness campaigns followed by workshops should therefore be held at district, upazila and union level.  Preparation of text material on road safety and introduction of this into academic curriculum and co curriculum activities in formal and informal education were voiced prominently. For this preparation of short teaching manual on road safety and teaching teachers in cluster meetings can accomplish immediate goal.  Written instruction from DC, District Education Officer, District Primary Education Officer, UNO and Thana Education Officer for arranging and accommodating road safety education informally for students in educational institutions is necessary.  Stepping up enforcement of traffic law and training for drivers appeared to be as important to reduce accident  The District Road Safety Committees and Upo Zilla Road Safety Committees have to be made more aware and active in addressing road safety issues. Formation of committees like URSC at Union level may be of help to bridge the gap.  Activate and implement local Khoar (Cage for cattle head) laws to stop cattle heads on roads.  Local NGOs, if supplied with necessary technical assistance, materials and logistics, can work well for road safety.  Enough road shoulder space for pedestrians, widening and provision of footpath on road going through hats/bazaars, inclusion of cost estimate for road safety works in BOQ, construction of boundary wall for road side schools and marking zebra crossings in front came strongly from the stakeholders.  Road use for other than traffic like drying of paddy, putting shed/shutter on shoulders of road etc. causes accidents and hence to be stopped.

Annex - 01

Project Activities

Class on ‘First Aid’ taken by a doctor at Barisal Interviewing a student of East Kathalbarria registered primary school, Shalikha, Magura on 06.04.06 TARC on 17.04.06

Police officer taking Class on ‘legal support to Project Advisor and Director BRAC Accident victim’ at Barisal TARC on 17.04.06 Conducting session on CRSI at Jessore TARC on 24.04.06

Mr. Abdus Shahid, Project Director, RDP- 25, LGED sharing Certificate awarded by Dr. Ute Ekhardt, Mission experience Member, Standing from left A. Najmul Hussain, BRAC, Christoph Isenmann, CD, KfW, Peter Palesch, CD, GTZ, Dr. Mahbuba Nasreen, Prof. DU

Cover page of road safety training flipchart Poster on safe crossing of road Poster on safe walking on road

RS trainer of BRAC conducting teachers training at A participant of teachers training demonstrating

Maanpasha High School, Jhalokhati on 27.05.06 how to use flipchart

A trained teacher teaching student Road safety at Local schoolteacher discussing road accident problem during Fulkuri Precadet & high school, Hoibotpur, Jessore discussion session of road safety rally at Douatala high school of Bamna, Barguna on 14.05.2006

A local road accident victim narrating her bitter Students and community members took out experiences during kick off rally at Kaburat Junior procession at Baguria Beltala Goyarhat road, Kolaroa, high school, Kumarkhali, Kushtia on 25.06.2006 Satkhira on 12.07.06

A customer reading posters hung on wall of a Reflective stickers attached on rickshaw at restaurant at Baniakhali bazar, Dumuria, Khulna Gournadi bondor Sarikol road, Gournadi Barisal

Project Director, RDP-25, LGED giving presentation Project Manager, Road Safety, BRAC on RDP-25 at Khulna workshop on 05.03.07 presenting Key Notepaper at Jessore workshop on 04.03.2007 16

Divisional Commissioner, Barisal speaking as chief DIG of Police, Barisal range speaking as special guest at Barisal workshop on 07.03.07. PD, RDP-25, guest at Barisal workshop on 07.03.07. Divisional

LGED on his left, DIG of Police, Barisal range on his Commissioner, Barisal on his left and SE LGED right and SE LGED Barisal & chair of the workshop Barisal & chair of the workshop on his right. on 2nd right.

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MD & RSS, GITEC Barisal presentening RS issues A participant speaking during open and work plan of the project at Barisal on 07.03.07 discussion session at Khulna on 05.03.07 17

Annex- 02 List of the selected NGOs/CBOs

Upazila & Type of Name of Road Name of NGOs/CBOs Name of the CEO and Address District Org. Bamna, Amua Kheyghat- ASECEDO NGO Md. Nachar Uddin, ED Borguna. Dauatola Rd. up to Shafipur (Hospital Road), Bamna, Barguna Pilulia Bazar Road HOP NGO Md. Latif Forazi, ED (21.00 km) Douatola, Bamna, Barguna Kalapara, Kalaroa-Alipur Chapila Postim Chapila Jubo CBO Jasim Uddin Khalifa, Chairman Potuakhali Bazar (11.96 km) Unnayan Club Chapila bazaar, Chapila, Kalapara, Patukhali Gournadi, Gournadi Bandar- Unnayan Prochasta CBO H M Shahjahan Kabir, ED Barisal. Sarikol road (17.20 Pingolakathi, Gournadi, Barisal km) OND NGO Md. Badsha Fakir, Chairman Nalchirra, Batajorr Sarikol, Gournadi, Barisal Sadar Jhalokhati BS – JDS NGO Md. Shaha Alam Khalifa, Director Jhalokathi Manpasha -Balakdia 59/A East Chadkathi, Jhalokathi (9.096 km) Sadar, Ilisha BS Kalghat- Anser VDP Club. CBO Md. Abul Kasem, Secretary Bhola Pangasia (13.10 km) Char Jangalia Bazar, Medua, Sadar, Bhola Sadar, Pirojpur-Sreeramkati Durgapur Chunggapasha CBO Md. Sahidul Islam Pirojpur Dakshin Jibgram Somaj Kollayan Chalisha, Sadar, Pirojpur (11.61 km) Somitee. Md. Rafiqul Islam, Chairman Tayobpur Sobuj Sanggho. CBO Dumuria, Dumuria - Baroaria Tayobpur, Sarafpur, Dumuria, Khulna Khulna (16.52 km) Sundormohol Postimpara CBO Md Rezaul Fakir, Chairman Adarsho Jubo Songgho. Sundarmohol, Baroaria, Botiaghata, Khulna Kalaroa, Baguri-Beltala – Balaka Songgha CBO Mr. Motiar Rahman Satkhira Gourahati (10.50 km) Goyra Bazaar, Chandonpur, Kolaroa, Satkhira Sadar, Haibatpur-Hashimpur NDO NGO Md Faridul Islam, Chairman Jessore (10.43 km) Haibotpur, Sadar, Jessore Lohagora, Laxmipasha-Mohajon Digholia Grameen CBO Sheikh Faridur Rahman, President Narail. Road, (12.45 km) Sheba Kallayan Digholia bazaar, Kola Digholia, Lohagara, Sangshta Narail Kumar- Kushtia - Rajbari RHD Sanchita Somitee CBO Md. Saydul Islam, President khali, - Panti GC via Sauta, Chapra, Kumarkhali, Kustia Kushtia Jaduboyra – Sandiara Jodu Boyra Jotmora CBO Md. Rabiul Islam, Secratary Bazaar Road Somobay Somitee. (16.00 km) Jotmora, Joduboyra, Kumarkhali, Kustia Kaligonj, Nirikelbaria-Kaliganj Paradies NGO Golam Mostafa, Executive Director Jhenaidah via Naldanga bazar Hospital road, Naldanga, Kaligonj, Road (15.60 km) Jhenaidaha Rural Reconstructin NGO Philip Biswas, ED, RRF Bhabon Foundation C & B Road, Karbala, Jessore Shalikha, Simakhali-Bunagati via Rova Foundation NGO Kazi Quamruzzaman, ED Magura Hazrahati Road Harishpur, Shalikha, Magura (13.80 km) Shapla Songho CBO Shawpon Kr Biswas Hazrahati, Shalikha, Magura Sadar, Barakpur-Chulkati- N. Khanpur S& L CBO F.M. Nazrul Islam, President Bagerhat Plolerhat (11.90 km) Somobay Somitee. Uttor Khanpur, Bagerhat.

Annex- 03

Participant list of NGO/CBO leaders’ Road Safety Awareness Training

Venue: BRAC Training and Resource Centre, Barisal Duration: April 17 – 19, 2006 Sl. No. Name Designation Name of Organization 01 Md. Shahjahan Kabir Executive Director Unnayan Prochesta 02 M. A. Barek Coordinator " 03 K.M.D. Sohel GB Member Organisation of National Development 04 Premanando Manager " 05 Md. Jasimuddin Khalifa Chairman Paschim Chapali Jubo Unnayan Club 06 Md. Shah Alam Khalifa Director Jhalokathi Development Society 07 Anil Baran Halder Project Officer " 08 Md. Necher Uddin Executive Director ASECED Organisation 09 Md. Siddikur Rahman Manager " 10 Md. Latif Faraji Executive Director Human Organisation for the people 11 Ms. Zakia Sultana Branch Manager " 12 Md. Abul Kasim Secretary Ansar VDP club 13 Md. Siraj Uddin Cashier " 14 Md. Mujibur Rahman Secratary Durgapur Chongopasha Somaj Kalayan Somitee 15 Md. Omar Faruk Cashier " 16 F. M. Najrul Islam President N. Khanpur Savings and Loan Samobay Samitee 17 Sk. Ferdous Vice President "

Venue: BRAC Training and Resource Centre, Jessore Duration: April 22 – 24, 2006 Sl. No. Name Designation Name of Organization 01 Md. Amjad Hossain Programme Manager Niramoy Development Organisation 02 Ms. Rabia Khatun Field Officer " 03 Abu Bakar Siddique Secretary Sanchita Samity 04 Md. Shahidul Islam Chairman " 05 Md. Rafiqul Islam Chairman Toyobpur Sabuj Shango 06 Anath ranjon Biswas Member " 07 Kazi Mofizul Islam Chief Accountant ROVA foundation 08 Md. Shariful Islam Project Officer " 09 Md. Esanur Rahman Member Sundarmohol Poschimpara Adarsha Jubo Sangho 10 Md. Abul Kasem APRE " 11 Md. Zakir Hossain Joint Secretary Digholia Grameen Sheba Kallayan Sangstha 12 Quazi A. Razzak Executive Member " 13 Md. Rabiul Islam Secretary Jotmora Samobay Samity 14 Md. Jahangir Alam Member " 15 Shwapon Kumar Biswas President Shapla Sangho 16 Ranjit Kumar Biswas Secretary " 17 Md. Shawkot Ali Secretary Balaka Sangho 18 Md. Ahsan Habib Member " 19 Md. Foyjur Rahman Unit Manager Rural Reconstruction Foundation 20 Md. Monirul Islam Field Officer " 21 Md. Golam Mostafa Executive Director PARADISE 22 Md. Abul Hossain Supervispr " 23 Md. Abul Hossain MD & RSS GITEC, Jessore

Annex- 04

Teacher Training Schedule and Teachers trained

Trained teacher Name of Road Total school Date of training Training Venue M F Total Dumuria -Baroaria road, Dumuria, Khulna 7 31.5-1.6.06 Baniakhali High School 13 1 14 Barakpur - Chulkathi raod, Sadar, Saira Modhudia government Bagerhat 10 24-25.5.06 primary school 15 3 18 Baguria Beltala- Goyarhat road, Kolaroa, Satkhira 7 27-28.5.06 BHS Singa High School 11 3 14 Kustia-Rajbari RHD - Panti GC road, Umed Ali registered primary Kumarkhali, Kustia 8 21-22.5.06 school 9 4 13 Laxmipasa- Mohajon road, Lohagara, RL Pasha government primary Narail 11 6-7.6.06 school 10 7 17 Hoibatpur - Hasimpur road, Sadar, Jessore 9 3-4.5.06 Kasimpur High School 16 1 17 Kaligonj - Narikelbaria road, Kaligonj, Jhenaidaha 15 16-17.5.06 AArrmukhi High School 23 5 28 Shimakhali-Bunagati road Shalikha, Magura 14 9-10.5.06 Sarshuna High School 23 4 27 Total of Khulna division 81 120 28 148 Gournadi bandar-Shorikol, road, Gournadi, Barisal 10 23-24.4.06 Pingalkathi High School 17 3 20 Jhalokathi - Manpasha, road, Sadar, Jhalokathi 10 27-28.4.06 Manpashsa High School 10 7 17 Alipur-Chapli road, Kalapara, Amjadpur registered primary Patuakhali 6 5-6.6.06 school 6 1 7 Dawatola government primary Amua Kheyaghat - Raihanpur road, 8 17-18.5.06 school 9 3 12 Bamna Barguna 10 19-20.5.06 BRAC Bamna 13 4 17 Jangalia High School & Ilisha - Pangasia road, Sadar, Bhola 8 31.5-1.6.06 College 11 5 16 Pirojpur - Sreeramkathi, road sadar, Pirojpur 11 10-11.5.06 Tejdashkathi High School 13 9 22 Total of Barisal division 63 79 32 111 Total 144 199 60 259

Annex- 05

List with name of covered Educational Institution

Primary School Name of road & Upazila Name of Educational Institution Dumuria – Baroaria Road, Dumuria, Khulna Baniakhali government primary school Britti- Birala registered primary school Akra government primary school Sundarmohol government primary school Baroaria government primary school BS Chunakhola government primary school Sayara government primary school Barakpur – Chulkathi GC Road, Bagerhat Sadar, Sayara Modhudia government primary school Bagerhat Sugandhi government Girls primary school Sugandhi government primary school RKS kindergarten Baguri-kota government primary school Baguria – Beltala – Goyarhat, Kalaroa, Satkhira Singa government primary school Rambhadrapur government primary school Kushtia – Rajbari RHD – Panti GC Road, Kumarkhali, Umed Ali Biswas registered primary school Kushtia HD Kindergarten (Hizlabat) Sauta government primary school Kaligonga preparatory school RL Pasha government primary school M. Matiadanga government primary school Akrabari Chardigholia registered primary school Kola government primary school Par Mallickpur government primary school Laxmipasha – Mohajon, Lohagora, Narail Khalishakhali community primary School Mohajon Kolagasia government primary school Digholia government primary school Oxford International kindergarten Progoti pre-cadet kindergarten Shayamnagar government primary school Kasimpur government primary school Haibatpur – Hasimpur Jessore sadar, Jessore Fulkurri Pre-Cadet & High school Naodagram S.D. Registered primary school Rohelapur registered primary school Pirojpur registered primary school Asirbad A G School Kaligonj – Narkelbaria, Kaligonj, Jhenaidah Paikpara government primary school Naldanga government primary school Vitshwar registered primary school

Name of road & Upazila Name of Educational Institution Kaligonj – Narkelbaria, Kaligonj, Jhenaidah Arrmukhi government primary school (Cont.) Baghuti registered primary school Baniabahu government primary school East Tetul Baria registered primary school Barnomala Bidayapith Sarshuna government primary school Kanthalbarria registered primary School Bunagati – Shimakhali, Shalikha, Magura. Kathalbarria Purbo Para non govt. primary school Bunagati government primary school Hazrahati registered primary school Simakhali government primary school Sunflower kindergarten Diashur government primary school North Pinglakathi government primary school Gaurnadi Modle government primary school

East Garangal government primary school Gaurnadi Bandar – Sarikol, Gaurnadi, Barisal Badarpur registered primary school Nalchira cooperative registered primary school Kandopasha government primary school Manpasha Sher-E Bangla government primary School Balokdia registered primary School Agorbarri registered primary school Jhalokathi – Manpasha GC Road, Jhalokathi Sadar, Krishnakathi government primary school Jhalokathi Bitna government primary school South Manpasha government primary school Choupola registered primary school Chapali bazar community primary school Maitbhanga registered primary school Alipur – Chapali Road, Kalapara, Patuakhali Amjedpur registered primary school Gora Amkholapara community primary school Tushkhali government primary school East Sonakhali government primary school Sonakhali government primary school Kalikabarri government primary school Amua Kheyaghat Douatala – Raihanpur, Bamna, Joynagar government primary school Barguna Zafrakhali government primary school Douatola bandar government primary school Chotto Bhaijorra government primary school Hogolpathi government primary school Charrakhali community primary school

Name of road, Upazila and District Name of Educational Institution Amua Kheyaghat Douatala – Raihanpur, Bamna, Kalaiya government primary school Barguna West Douatola community primary school (Cont.) Shixmaghar kindergarten Ilisha – Pangasia, Bhola Sadar, Bhola Pangasia government primary school Pangasia Amin bazar registered primary school Jangalia government primary school Sadurchar community primary school South-middle Sadhurchar regi. Primary school West Bapta Gucchagram regi. Primary school Pirojpur – Sreeramkathi, Pirojpur Sadar, Pirojpur Rayerkathi registered Primary school Moolagram government primary school Tejdaskathi government primary school East Durgapur government primary school South Jibgram government primary school Jibgram government primary school Sreeramkathi government primary school East Chungapasha government primary school

High School

Name of road, Upazila & District Name of Educational Institution Dumuria – Baroaria, Dumuria, Khulna Baniakhali high school Baroaria high school B.S.C. High school Saira Modhudia collegiate school Barakpur – Chulkathi GC, Bagerhat Sadar, Bagerhat Sugandhi girls high school CG Madhayamik bidayaloy BSH Singa high school Baguria Beltala – Goyarhat, Kalaroa, Satkhira Satpota Rahima girls high school Chandanpur high school HD Azizur Rahman high school Kushtia – Rajbari RHD – Panti GC, Kumarkhali, Kaburat junior high school Kushtia Kaligonga junior Girls school VCD Madhayamik bidayaloy Noudagram Shamnagar junior high school Haibatpur – Hasimpur Jessore sadar, Jessore Kashimpur high school Laxmipasha – Mohajon, Lohagora, Narail Digholia Adarsha madhayamik bidayaloy Naldanga Ibrahim high school Kaligonj – Narkelbaria, Kaligonj, Jhenaidah Arrmukhi Joarder Jalaluddin high school Baniabahu high school

Name of road, Upazila & District Name of Educational Institution Sharushima maddhaymic biddalaya Shimakhali high school Bunagati – Shimakhali, Shalikha, Magura. Amjad Ali high school Bunagati madhayamik balika bidayaloy Kandopasha girls high school Gaurnadi Bandar – Sarikol, Gaurnadi, Barisal Pingolkathi high school Sarikol madhayamik bidayaloy Hazera Khatun girls high school Jhalokathi – Manpasha GC, Jhalokathi Sadar, Manpasha Sher- E Bangla high school Jhalokathi Manpasha madhayamik balika bidayaloy Alipur – Chapli, Kalapara, Patuakhali Chapli Islmia madhayamik bidayaloy Jafrakhali high school Amua Kheyaghat Dawatala – Raihanpur, Bamna, Holta Douatala high school Barguna Hogolpathi high school West Bapta Adorsha madhayamik bidayaloy Ilisha – Pangasia, Bhola Sadar, Bhola Jangalia school & college Durgapur high school Pirojpur – Sreeramkathi, Pirojpur Sadar Tejdaskathi madhayamik bidayaloy Sreeramkathi madhayamik bidayaloy

Madrassa

Name of road, Upazila & District Name of Educational Institution DM Prof. Nasir Uddin Dakhil Madrasa (primary section) Baguria Beltala – Goyarhat, Kalaroa, SatKhira (High section) Rahelapur Dakhil Madrasa (primary section) Haibatpur – Hasimpur Jessore sadar, Jessore (High Section) Darul Quran Forkania Etim Hefjokhana, Shayamnagar Arrmukhi Dakhil Madrasa (primary section) (High section) Kaligonj – Narkelbaria, Jhenaidah Naldanga Islamia Dakhil Madrasa (primary section) (High section) N. Sharushana Usufia Dakhil Madrasa (primary section) (High section) Bunagati – Shimakhali, Shalikha, Magura. Shimakhali Qowmi Madrasa Horishpur Dakhil Madrasa (primary section) (High section) West Safipur Noorani Qowmi Madrasa Amua Kheyaghat – Dawatala – Raihanpur, Bamna, Songunia Douatola Senior Madrasa, (primary section) Barguna (High section)

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Annex- 07

Details of Kick-off events

No. of Participant attended (approximate) Remarkable Name of Road, Upzila and Venue Date LGED & persons District Tea- Local Total Boys Girls BRAC attended cher Elites staff

XEn. of LGED, Hoibatpur – Hasimpur, Sadar, Kasimpur high DTL, UP 12.06.06 398 225 131 16 7 19 Jessore school Chairman, Journalist

Shimakhali – Bunagati, Simakhali high 15.06.06 400 200 165 15 3 17 UE LGED Shalikha, Magura school

Kaligonj – Narikelbaria, Naldanga high 21.06.06 450 200 212 15 3 20 DTL Kaligonj, Jhenaidah school

Kustia-Rajbari RHD – Panti, Kaburat Junior TL, DTL, 25.06.06 400 200 170 10 10 10 Kumarkhali, Kustia high school SAE LGED

Rani Bhadrapur Baguria Beltala – Goyarhat, govt. primary 12.07.06 320 140 151 5 4 20 Kolaroa, Satkhira school

Dumuria – Baroaria, Dumuria, Baniakhali govt. 16.07.06 330 150 150 10 3 17 Khulna primary school

Laxmipasa – Mohajon, RL Pasha govt. 19.07.06 330 150 150 10 3 17 Lohagora, Narail primary school

Saira Modhudia Borakpur – Chulkathi, Sadar, govt. primary 23.07.06 349 160 171 6 2 10 Bagerhat school

Total of Khulna division 2977 1425 1300 87 35 130

Amua Kheyaghat – Dawatola high 14.06.06 576 288 244 16 6 22 Raihanpur, Bamna, Barguna school

Gournadi Bandar – Shorikol, Pingalkathi high 18.06.06 632 318 264 16 16 18 Gournadi, Barisal school

Ilisha – Pangasia, Sadar Pangasia high UNO, AE, UE, 22.06.06 446 215 191 18 14 8 Bhola school SAE

Jhalokathi – Manpasha Manpashsa high XEn, AE, UE, 29.06.06 398 198 165 20 6 9 Sadar, Jhalokathi school SAE of LGED

Pirojpur – Sreeramkathi, Tejdashkathi UNO, UE, SAE 06.07.06 586 292 258 18 8 10 Sadar, Pirojpur high school of LGED

Alipur – Chapli, Kalapara, Amjadpur govt. 09.07.06 328 168 143 6 6 5 SAE LGED Patuakhali primary school

Total of Barisal division 2966 1479 1265 94 56 72

Grand Total 5943 2904 2565 181 91 202

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Annex- 09 Highlights of Dissemination Workshops

Venue: Regional Training Centre Date: 4th, 5th and 7th March 2007 Jessore, Khulna and Barisal

A total of three workshops have been organised to disseminate the campaign activities, its impact and for road safety advocacy. The venues of the workshops held on 04, 05 and 07 March were regional training centers of LGED at Jessore, Khulna and Barisal. BRAC gave the keynote presentation at these workshops organised locally by the Rural Infrastructure Development Project/RDP – 25, LGED. The workshops were well attended by the participants from different sectors like Divisional/ District civil administration, Police administration, BRTA, Education Officer, Divisional/District/Upazila level LGED officials, school teachers, Union & Pourashava chairpersons, Consultants from ISTC, D&S of RDP-25, RMSU, LGED and NGO representatives of the project area. The list of the participants is attached. A total of 303 participants attended the three workshops (Annex – 13) making an average figure of 101 participants per workshop. The workshops comprised of brief presentation on RDP-25 project followed by keynote presentation by BRAC Project Manager. The detail workshop programme is given in Annex

Welcome Address and Project Brief by PD, RDP-25, LGED The Project Director of RDP-25 heartily welcomed everybody and expressed his gratitude for their kind presence and valuable time. He was confident that the cooperation and support of all participants from different sectors/ departments would be very useful for Road Safety Workshop. He requested them to contribute and enrich LGED’s effort in introducing road safety culture into the society.

The PD then briefly focused on basic facts of the project such as developing partners (ADB, Federal Republic of Germany & GoB) project area (16 Districts under Khulna and Barisal Division) project cost (US$ 170 million) & implementation period (July 2003 to June 2009).

He explained that the Objectives of the project is to: . Promote overall development of transportation system. . Help the rural poor people in poverty reduction. . Strengthening the institutional capacity of LGED & other Local Government Institutions including Ups. . Encourage women’s participation. He focused on institutional Support and Training (IST) component, which addresses: . Road Maintenance Management. . Market Development. . Road Safety. . Local Government Strengthening. . Gender & Women Development. . Benefit monitoring & evaluation. He mentioned that Baseline survey was conducted before starting physical works (March-August 2004) while Mid-term survey was completed during May to July 2006 on completed roads. Achievements in direct employment generation were 19,618 person years in road construction to 29 date, 39,363 person years for maintenance over the lifetime of the roads, while indirect employment generation on project roads went up by 52% from 69 jobs per km road length to 105.

Motorized traffic volume increased by 122% at Mid-term survey (July 2007) from Baseline survey period data (August 2004) Transport charges also were reduced by 47% for Rickshaw and 24% for vans. Road side land values in KfW districts (high lands) increased by 85% while that of midlands (Khulna) and lowlands (Barisal) increased by 118% and 44% respectively from base line value.

Road safety engineering measures like traffic signs, guard rails, widening of T-junction, bridge rail painting etc. are being provided for road safety under RDP-25 he further added.

Performance assessment of Pilot Union Parishads also produced satisfactory results compared to non-pilot UPs, as measured against different criteria such as sanitation programme, implementation of ADB, village count, register maintenance, resource mobilization, female UP member participation & UP management.

Economic Internal Rate of Return (EIRR) with time savings for Khulna gave a figure of 33.1% (Benefit/cost ratio/BCR: 2.7) while the figure for Barisal stood at 23.3% (BCR: 2.0).

Finally he mentioned that project elapsed period was 60% (from 1.7.2003) while overall implementation progress was 70% on 31.1.2007.

Keynote Paper: The Keynote paper was presented by Mr. AKM Kairuzzaman, Project Manager, Road Safety Projects, BRAC, explaining their activities on Road Safety with special references to the awareness campaign undertaken at RDP-25 roadside schools in Khulna and Barisal divisions.

The Keynote paper highlighted BRAC Road Safety Programme and the interventions undertaken at different areas in Bangladesh followed by description of the Road Safety Awareness campaign for students under RDP-25 the objectives of which were: . To improve Road Safety Awareness of students of educational Institutions besides 14 Upazila Roads of LGED to reduce their risks of road accidents. . To create an inbuilt mechanism of road safety practices in the project area. During his presentation the important contents of the students’ road safety training was described as: . Road accident- causes, remedial measures, impact and accident prone areas. . Accident victim support- extrication, first aid, medical support, legal steps, rehabilitation. . Road Engineering awareness- Engineering facilities, traffic signs etc. . Safe travelling- walking along, and crossing road; travelling by public transport etc. . Road safety related laws. . Introduction of IEC materials and about how to use those for training . Major Interventions- Community Road Safety Group (CRSG), Road Safety education in educational Institutions, Road Safety Rally.

In his presentation he narrated about the fourteen kick-off events took place in Barisal & Khulna Division comprising discussion by selected speakers on Road Safety issues, sharing of

30 experiences by road accident victims and finally taking out colorful processions with placards, festoons, banners and other road safety messages.

The most important part of the presentation was about the impact of the project interventions on the awareness level of the students. Mr. Khairuzzaman said that necessary assessments were made to see the differences between pre and post campaign levels of students’ knowledge on: . Walking on road without footpath . Walking on road in a group . Unsafe spots for crossing roads . Safe crossing of roads . Road Safety engineering facilities . Pedestrian night crossing and . Safe travel by Bus etc. The statistics presented have shown that in almost all cases, knowledge level considerably increased. The keynote paper concluded with the recommendations that road safety issues be included in school text books and similar awareness campaigns be undertaken for other LGED roads.

Papers Presented by ISTC Specialists Two Market Development and Road Safety Specialist ISTC, RDP-25 from Khulna & Jessore introduced the Road Safety issues and work plan of the project briefly. They explained the objectives of Road Safety under the project activities and focused on safe roads, traffic signs, guard post, km-posts, markets on roads, road curve and T-junction expansion, super-elevations, painting of railing/use of reflectors and palisading etc. The impacts of improved roads were also highlighted along with the importance of collecting Road Safety related information of project roads. Further they emphasized few points for female LCS worker on road maintenance such as walking on the shoulder, road crossing, walking at night, and safety for children; safely work on shoulder and slopes wearing bright dress, collecting accident data and so forth. The main problems of rural roads and these probable solutions of the above said issues were presented by slides. The road safety management issues included different steps/committees formed by LGED Headquarters and their subsequent implementation at regional and grass root levels.

The Observations/remarks/suggestions of Chief Guest, Special Guests and Chairpersons of each Workshop are presented below: Deputy Commissioner Jessore was the Chief Guest while DC Meherpur and Kustia were the Special Guests at in the workshop at Jessore on 4/3/2007. In Khulna, DC Khulna was the Chief Guest and DC Bagerhat was the Special Guest. In Barisal workshop, Divisional Commissioner was the Chief Guest while DIG Police was Special Guests. The workshops were chaired by SE, LGED Jessore, Khulna and Barisal.

Workshop at Jessore (4.3.2007): DC Meherpur (Special Guest) pointed out that RDP-25 should assist in building up public awareness including awareness building among school children. Drunk driving should be totally avoided and the related bailable clause of 307 under law should be reviewed and changed. He also added that unauthorized installations on roads, hats/Bazars should be removed to avoid accidents.

DC Kushtia, (Special Guest) remarked that road itself needs safety because frequently it is damaged due to heavy load carried by trucks, sometimes people cut the road for water passage, road width is narrowed due to construction by influential persons, and lastly teachers, students and local people must be aware of road safety issues.

DC Jessore (Chief Guest) put attention to the pathetic lives of the accident victims which need to be addressed now through awareness building. That is why this workshop is timely and very important one. Traffic week should be observed each year by participation from all concerned. Drivers on many occasions drive according to their own will, hand over the wheel to helper, and make the owners helpers through different associations. Drivers along with vehicle owners should be made responsible for accidents. However more public awareness building activities are needed.

The Chair of the workshop SE, LGED, Jessore mentioned that motorized and non-motorized transport increase due to improvement of road conditions and allows fast and slow moving vehicles on same lane causing accidents. Necessary attention should therefore be focused on road safety. He thanked everybody and closed the session.

Workshop at Khulna (5.3.2007): DC Bagerhat (Special Guest) pointed out that not only the accident victim, but his whole family members suffer due to accident. Inclusion of road safety in school education curriculum would reduce the risk of accidents while guardians would also be aware of accidents. He also suggested constructing roads as per design; otherwise faulty road design & construction would cause accidents

DC Khulna (Chief Guest) pointed out at the posters, festoons etc which were hanged on seminar room walls and suggested to distribute those more widely among officials public and all concerned. He was against drunk driving and advised drivers not to smoke while driving and indulge in unlawful activities like carrying goods beyond capacity etc. He advised police to enforce law more effectively. He was dissatisfied with the activities of DRSC & URSCs and advised BRTA to immediately activate these committees for proper functioning. Lastly he pointed out that findings from this workshop should be discussed in other forum also. The workshop was declared open by the Chief Guest.

The Chair of the workshop SE, LGED, Khulna observed that with the improvement of roads, movement of vehicular traffic increases having differential speed of MT & NMT, causing accidents. This needs special attention of all concerned, and knowledge gained out of this workshop should be shared with others. He thanked everybody and closed the session.

Workshop at Barisal (7.3.2007): DIG Police (Special Guest) emphasized the need of Road Safety awareness campaign because of high accident fatality rate in our country. The entire family of accident victims suffer and those who survive lead inhuman lives. Students, Teachers, Public should be made more & more alert about road accidents, and their awareness level must be increased considerably, Bus, Truck drivers should be trained and necessary changes should be incorporated in laws & regulations.

Divisional Commissioner (Chief Guest), Barisal expressed his satisfaction and thanked LGED for bringing up the Road Safety issue into such an enlightened forum which was very timely and needed urgently. He agreed that awareness level should be increased at all level including different committees like DRSCs and URSCs. He pointed out that country experience of two foreign team leaders who are present here today can be utilized in our Road Safety programme. Lastly he advised police officials to work jointly with different committees at District and Upazila level. The workshop was declared open by Divisional Commissioner.

The Chair of the workshop SE, LGED, Barisal mentioned that the scope of LGED activities has not been confined to infrastructural development only but also into public welfare like road use and road safety. Road accidents cannot be totally stopped in any country, but they can be reduced to a minimum level. That needs awareness and appropriate training for MT & NMT drivers & others. LGED has already started to introduce road safety activities and by now has completed awareness campaign in schools on 14 project roads. He hoped the recommendations from this workshop will be valuable and later on will be used by LGED to develop more meaningful Road Safety action plan. He then closed the workshop with vote of thanks.

Open Discussions There were many important points that were discussed by the participants in all three workshops. The points grouped under different heads are given below:

Motivation:  Motivation with placard, Posters, Festoons for public and school children needed.  Spread out the message of Road Safety through cinema, media etc.  RDP-25 could supply billboard, signboard at accident-prone areas to aware public.  Discuss Road safety in Mosque, Temple & churches.  Road Safety Workshops should be held at Upazila and Union level.  Press and media should take active part to spread road safety messages.  Discuss road safety in mother’s forum.  Composition of traffic; Driver, Passenger and Pedestrian all are equally responsible for accidents and should be made aware.  Ward members should take the responsibility to aware the public.

Training:  Prepare a Manual/Text material on road safety and introduce this into academic curriculum at national level both formally and informally. For this preparation of short teaching manual on road safety and teaching teachers in cluster meetings can accomplish immediate goal.  Training for drivers and follow up.  Training for motorized and non-motorized drivers including members of various associations followed by monitoring. Political, Religious people including Ansar & VDP should also be trained.  Minimum educational requirement, say SSC, is needed for drivers.

Laws, Regulations and Committees:  Reflectors should be compulsorily used on vehicles.  Enforce traffic laws to reduce accidents  Formation of committees at local level and jointly put efforts for road safety.  DRSC and URSC (formed in 2003) are not yet fully active. LGED should put more effort to work with these bodies.  Removal of unauthorized vehicles from road.  MT Drivers should be warned for violation of traffic laws and driving license should be cancelled after three warnings.  BRTA should be more careful in issuing driving license, fitness certificates while physical fitness of drivers should also be ensured.  Formation of committees like URSC at Union level is needed.  Existing traffic laws should be reviewed and updated.  Activate local Khoar (Cage for cattle head) laws to stop cattle heads on roads.  Avoid carrying goods beyond capacity.  NGOs, if supplied with necessary logistics, can work on road safety.  Owners Association should also be made responsible for accidents.  Necessity to introduce penalty for Drivers and Owners.

Engineering Facilities:  Unplanned tree plantation on roadside cause accident. Plantation should be maintenance friendly.  Two separate lanes should be there for fast and slow moving vehicles.  Straightening of sharp curves and T-Junction on road and provide smooth slopes for approach roads.  Provide boundary wall for roadside schools.  Cost estimation against road safety engineering should be included in BOQ of LGED.  Enough shoulder space for pedestrians should be there.

Road Use:

 Accident occurs due to movement of cattle heads on roads.  Eviction of Hats/Bazars from roads is necessary.  Road use for other than traffic, say drying of paddy, putting shed/shutter on shoulders of road etc. causes accidents.

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Annex- 11 Participants List

Venue: Regional Training Centre, LGED, Jessore Date: 04/03/2007 Sl. No. Name of Participants Designation Posting Place/Address Divisional and District Administration 1 Md Abual Hossain Deputy Commissioner Jessore 2 Talukder Shamsur Rahman Deputy Commissioner Kushtia 3 Sanjoy Kumar Chowdhury Deputy Commissioner (In charge) Chuadanga 4 Md. Atahar Ali Deputy Commissioner Meherpur 5 Sanotsh Kumar Adhikari ADC (General) Magura 6 ASM Shamsur Rahman Bhuiyan Police Super Chuadanga 7 Sheik Joynuddin Police Super Meherpur 8 AFM Wahiduzzaman Police Super Magura 9 Md. Shafikul Alam Sarker Inspector BRTA, Jessore 10 Md. Golam Azam Traffic Inspector Jessore 11 Md. Raihanul Islam Khan Traffic Inspector Meherpur 12 SM Abul Fazal Traffic Inspector Jhenidah 13 Md. Anower Hossain Miah Traffic Inspector Magura Local Government Engineering Department 14 Md. Abdus Shaheed. Project Director Dhaka 15 Md. Mashiur Rahman Superintendent Engineer Jessore 16 GM. Mofizul Islam Deputy Project Director Khulna 17 Md. Nazmul Alam Executive Engineer Jessore 18 Md. Abdur Rashid Miah Executive Engineer Kushtia 19 Md. Abdus Salam Mondol Executive Engineer Chuadanga 20 Kazi Mizanur Rahman Executive Engineer Meherpur 21 Md. Abdul Hamid, Executive Engineer Jhenidah 22 Ratan Kumar Day Executive Engineer (Training) Jessore 23 Md. Abdur Rahim Assistant Engineer Magura 24 Md. Manjurul Alam Siddique Upazila Engineer Sadar, Jessore 25 SK Md.Nurul Islam Upazila Engineer (New) Sadar, Jessore 26 Md. Abdus Satter, Upazila Engineer Chowgacha, Jessore 27 Shamol Kumar Bose Upazila Engineer Sarsha, Jessore 28 Md. Mohsin Hossain Upazila Engineer Keshabpur, Jessore 29 Subash Kumar Saha Upazila Engineer Monirampur, Jessore 30 Md Shariful Islam Khan Upazila Engineer Abhoynagar, Jessore 31 Md Abdul Mazed Upazila Engineer Jhikargacha, Jessore 32 Md. Akhtaruzzaman Upazila Engineer Bagharpara, Jessore 33 Md Abdus Salam Upazila Engineer Kushtia Sadar 34 Md. Kamruzzaman Upazila Engineer Mirpur, Kushtia 35 Raju Ahmed Upazila Engineer Bheramara, Kushtia 36 Md Motiur Rahman Upazila Engineer Khoksa , Kushtia 37 Md Shahidul Islam Khan Upazila Engineer Daulatpur, Kushita 38 Md Kamrul Islam Sardar Upazila Engineer Kumarkhali, Kushtia 39 Md Nowshaduzzaman Upazila Engineer Gangni, Meherpur 40 Md Abdur Rahim Upazila Engineer Chuadanga Sadar

Sl. Name of Participants Designation Posting Place/Address No. 41 Md Shakhawat Hossain Upazila Engineer Alamdanga, Chuadanga 42 Shib Sankar Saha Upazila Engineer Damurhuda, Chuadanga 43 Md, Mosharraf Hossain Upazila Engineer Jibannagar, Chuadanga 44 Md Jahangir Alam Upazila Engineer Sadar, Jhenidah 45 Md. Shafiqur Rahman Upazila Engineer Moheshpur, Jhenidah 46 Rabindra Kumar Mojumder Upazila Engineer Horinakundu , Jhenidah 47 SM Humayun Kabir Upazila Engineer Kaliganj, Jhenidah 48 Md. Shamsur Rahman Upazila Engineer Sailkupa, Jhenidah 49 Syed Nizamuddin Ahmed Upazila Engineer Magura Sadar 50 Md. Shamsur Rahman Upazila Engineer Mohmmadpur, Magura 51 Sarder Ikramul Kabir Upazila Engineer Sreepur, Magura 52 Md Golam Mostafa Upazila Engineer Salikha, Magura 53 Md Tohidul Haque Joardar Assistant Engineer, RDP-25 Meherpur 54 Md Habibur Rahman Assistant Engineer, RDP-25 Kushtia Education Department 55 Mashi Rani Biswas District Primary Education Officer Jessore 56 Fashiuddin Ahmed District Primary Education Officer Chuadanga 57 Mollah Boktiar Rahman District Primary Education Officer Meherpur 58 Kazi Robyul Islam District Primary Education Officer Jhenidah 59 Panchanan Bala District Primary Education Officer Magura 60 Rehana Sultana (Shila) Upazila Education Officer Sadar, Jessore 61 Nasir Uddin Ahmed Upazila Education Officer Kumarkhali, Kushtia 62 Khan Mahsura Akter Twin Upazila Education Officer Shalikha, Magura 63 Md. Abdus Salam Asst. Teacher, Shayamnagar Govt. Sadar, Jessore Primary School 64 Shamsunnaher Asst. Teacher Simakhali Govt. Pri. School Shalikha, Magura 65 A Mannan Biswash Headmaster, Bunagati Govt. Pri. School Shalikha, Magura 66 Md. Shomshar Ali Asst. Teacher Naldanga Govt. Pri. School Kaliganj, Jhenidah 67 Md. Motiar Rahman Headmaster, Baniabahu Govt. Pri. School Kaliganj, Jhenidah 68 AHM Abdud Dayen Asst. Teacher Koburat High School Kumarkhali, Kushtia 69 Md. Rezoan Ali Asst. Teacher, Koburat Reg. Pri. School Kumarkhali, Kushtia Union Parishad 70 Md Abubakkar Gazi Member (respective), Haibatpur UP Sadar, Jessore 71 Md Imran Hossain Member (respective), Satakhali UP Shalikha, Magura 72 Md Amjad Ali Chairman, Shalikha UP Shalikha, Magura 73 Md Nowsher Hossain Member (respective), Shalikha UP Shalikha, Magura 74 Md. Abdul Wadud Chairman, Sundarpur UP Kaliganj, Jhenidah 75 Alamgir Member (respective), Sundarpur UP Kaliganj, Jhenidah Project Staff 76 I.A. Dilliway TL, D&S, Dhaka 77 Selimuzzan Sikder DTL, D & S Khulna Region, Jessore 78 Mr. W. Paranamara RPE, D & S Khulna Region, Jessore 79 Moshiur Rahman Joarder QCE, D & S Khulna Region, Jessore

Sl. Name of Participants Designation Posting Place/Address No. 80 M Mujibur Rahman FRE, D & S Jessore 81 Obaidur Rahman FRE, D & S Magura 82 M Humayun kabir FRE, D & S Jhenidah 83 AKM Jamal Ahmed FRE, D & S Kushtia 84 Shakhawat Hossain FRE, D & S Chuadanga 85 Md. Mostafa Hossain FRE, D & S Meherpur 86 Mr. Rainer Kuhnle TL, IST, Dhaka 87 N.I. Sardar DTL, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 88 Md. Nurul Haque DTL, IST, (New) Khulna Region, Jessore 89 Md. Abul Hossain MDRSS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 90 Md. Selim MDRSS, IST, Barisal Region, Barisal 91 Md. Banda Hafiz LGS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 912 Md Nur Alam TS, IST, Khulna & Barisal Region, Jessore 93 Sabina Islam WDS, IST, Khulna & Barisal Region, Jessore 94 Syed Abdur Rahim MS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 95 Md Ashraful Islam FO, MDRS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 96 Al Helal Masood LGS Supervisor,IST Khulna Region, Jessore 97 Md Sadeque Ali FO, MS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore NGO Representative 98 AKM Khairuzzaman BRAC Representative/Project Manager Dhaka 99 Md. Shahanur Alam, BRAC Representative Dhaka 100 Md. Azmot Ali BRAC Representative Dhaka 101 Md Amzad Hossain NDO, Partner NGO Haibatpur, Jessore Sadar 102 Md. Abubakar Siddique Sanchita Somitee, Partners NGO Kumarkhali, Kushtia 103 Md Rabiul Islam Jodu Boyra Jatmora Somobay Jotmora, Joduboyra, Kumarkhali, Somittee, Partner NGO Kushtia 104 Golam Mostafa Paradise, Partner NGO Noldanga road,Kaligonj, Jhenidah 105 Rokeya Khatun RRF, Partner NGO Karbala, Sadar, Jessore 106 Kazi Kamruzzaman Rova Foundation, Partner NGO Harishpur, Shalikah, Magura, 107 Swapan Kumar Shapla Songho, Partner NGO Hazrahati, Shalikha, Magura

Venue: LGED Hall Room, Khulna Date: 05/03/2007 Sl. Name of Participants Designation Posting Place/ Address No. Divisional and District Administration 1 S.M. Feroz Alam Deputy Commissioner Khulna 2 Shahidul Islam Deputy Commissioner Bagerhat 3 Md.. Zillur Rahman A S P Khulna 4 Md. Aminul Haque Sarkar Inspector BRTA, Khulna Region 5 Md Siddiqur Rahman Traffic Inspector Bagerhat Local Government Engineering Department 6 Md. Abdus Shaheed Project Director Dhaka 7 Md Mashiur Rahman Superintendent Engineer Jessore 8 G.M. Mofizul Islam Deputy Project Director Khulna

Sl. No. Name of Participants Designation Posting Place/Address 9 A.K. Azad Executive Engineer Khulna 10 Md Rafiqul Alam Executive Engineer Bagerhat 11 Khondker Md. Abdullah Ad-Dad Executive Engineer Satkhira 12 A.N.M. Enayet Ullah Executive Engineer Narail 13 Ratan Kumar Dey Executive Engineer (Training) Jessore 14 Md. Mijanur Rahman Sheikh Upazila Engineer Paikgacha, Khulna 15 Md. Sayfuddin Upazila Engineer Dumuria, Khulna 16 Md. Rezaul Karim Upazila Engineer Koyra, Khulna 17 Md. Abdul Latif Mollah Upazila Engineer Rupsha, Khulna 18 Md. Abdul Hakim Upazila Engineer Digholia, Khulna 19 SK, Ariful Islam Upazila Engineer Terokhada, Khulna 20 Md. Anwarul Islam Upazila Engineer Batiaghata, Khulna 21 Md. Abedur Rahman Upazila Engineer Fultala, Khulna Local Government Engineering Department 22 Berendra Nath Sarkar Upazila Engineer Dakop, Khulna 23 Md. Monowar Uddin Upazila Engineer Kalia, Narail 24 Md Khalilur Rahman Upazila Engineer Lohagara, Narail 25 Md Abu Hanif Mredha Upazila Engineer Shyamnagar, Satkhira 26 K.M. Faruk Hossain Upazila Engineer Sadar, Satkhira 27 Md. Harunor Rashid Upazila Engineer Kaliganj, Satkhira 28 Md. Younus Ali Upazila Engineer Kalaroa, Satkhira 29 SK. Shamsul Alam Upazila Engineer Tala, Satkhira 30 GM. Muzibur Rahman Upazila Engineer Debhata, Satkhira 31 Amitab Sana Upazila Engineer Assasuni, Satkhira 32 Md. Rabiul Islam Upazila Engineer Sadar, Bagerhat 33 Md. Mamun khan Upazila Engineer Rampal, Bagerhat 34 Md. Abu Kamal Upazila Engineer Morelganj, Bagerhat 35 Anupam Paul Upazila Engineer Sarankhola, Bagerhat 36 Alhaj Md, Oliur Rahman Upazila Engineer Fakirhat, Bagerhat 37 SK. Alam Upazila Engineer Chitalmari, Bagerhat 38 M.M.A. Kashem Upazila Engineer Mollahat, Bagerhat 39 Narayan Chandra Sarkar Upazila Engineer Mongla, Bagerhat 40 Dipak Kumar Samadder Upazila Engineer Kachua, Bagerhat Education Department 41 Md. Idris District Primary Education Officer Khulna 42 Md. Manawar Hossain District Primary Education Officer Bagerhat 43 SK. Abu Jafar Upazila Education Officer Sadar, Bagerhat 44 Md, Mozaffor Uddin Upazila Education Officer Kalaroa, Satkhira 45 Md. Shah Alam Upazila Education Officer Dumuria, Khulna 46 Md. Fozer Ali Headmaster, Chandanpur Govt. Pri. School Kalaroa Satkhira 47 Tofajjel Hossain Asst. Teacher, Baniakhali Govt. Pri. School Dumuria, Khulna 48 Nikhil Chondra Mondal Headmaster, Baroaria Govt. Pri. School Botiaghata, Khulna 49 SM. Ahammad Ali Asst. Teacher, RL Pasha Govt. Pri. School Lohagara,Narail

Sl. No. Name of Participants Designation Posting Place/ Address 50 Farida Yasmin Rani Headmaster, Kola Govt. Primary School Lohagara, Narail 51 Nourin Sultana Asst. Teacher, SM Govt. Primary School Sadar, Bagerhat 52 Jhanara Khatun Headmaster, BSC Chunakhola Govt. Pri. School Sadar, Bagerhat Union Parishad 53 Howlader Abdul Haq Chairman, Satgambuz UP Sadar, Bagerhat 54 Sheikh Abdul Salam Member (respective), Satgambuz UP Sadar, Bagerhat 55 Moniruzzaman Chairman, Khanpur UP Sadar, Bagerhat 56 Mitali Das Member (respective), Khanpur UP Sadar, Bagerhat 57 Hassan Aziz Ahmad Chairman, Keralkata UP Kalaroa, Satkhira 58 Md. Mosharaf Member (respective), Keralkata UP Kalaroa, Satkhira 59 Md. Abdul Hamid. Chairman, Chandanpur UP Kalaroa, Satkhira 60 Md. Khairuzzaman Alim Member (respective), Chandanpur UP Kalaroa, Satkhira 61 Nuruddin Al Masud Chairman, Sorafpur UP Dumuria, Khulna 62 SM. Hemayet Ali Chairman, Surkhali UP Botiaghata, Khulna 63 Md. Khalilur Rahman Member (respective), Surkhali UP Botiaghata, Khulna 64 Zohir Fokir Chairman, Laxmipasha UP Lohagara, Narail 65 Kamrul Zaman Member (respective), Laxmipasha UP Lohagara, Narail 66 Sk, Sharifuddin Mithu Chairman, Lakhpur UP Fakirhat, Bagerhat 67 Feroz Ahmmed Member (respective), Lakhpur UP Fakirhat, Bagerhat Project Staff 68 I.A. Dilliway TL, D & S Dhaka 69 Selimuzzaman Sikder DTL, D & S Khulna Region, Jessore 70 Mr. W. Paranamana RPE, D & S Khulna Region, Jessore 71 Mosiur Rahman Joardar QCE, D & S Khulna Region, Jessore 72 Md. S.I. Takukder FRE, D & S Khulna 73 Anup Kumar Mondal FRE, D & S Satkhira 74 M. Quaisural Mahmood Khan FRE, D & S Narail, 75 Mr. Rainer Kuhnle TL, IST Dhaka 76 Md. Nurul Haque DTL, IST Khulna Region, Jessore 77 Md. Abul Hossain MDRSS, IST Khulna Region, Jessore 78 Md. Selim MDRSS, IST Barisal Region, Barisal 79 Md. Nur Alam TS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 80 Syed Abdur Rahim MS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 81 Md. Ashraful Islam FO, MDRS, IST, Khulna Region, Jessore 82 Al Helal Masood FS, LGS, IST Khulna Region, Jessore 83 Md Sadeque Ali FO, MS, IST Khulna Region, Jessore NGO Representative 84 A. K. M. Khairuzzaman BRAC Representative/Project Manager Dhaka 85 Md Azmot Ali BRAC Representative Dhaka 86 Md. Shahnur Alam BRAC Representative Dhaka 87 Md. Rofiqul Islam Partner NGO of Dumuria Khulna 88 Md. Abul Kashem Partner NGO of Dumuria Khulna 89 Sheikh Zahir Hossain Partner NGO of Lohagara Narail 90 Md. Nazrul Islam Partner NGO of Sadar Bagerhat

Venue: Regional Training Centre, LGED, Barisal Date: 07/03/2007 Sl. No. Name of the Participants Designation Posting Place/ Address Divisional High Officials 1 Mr. Bizon Kanti Sarker Divisional Commissioner Barisal 2 Md. Aminul Islam DIG of Police Barisal District High Officials 3 Mohammad Monjur-E-Elahi Deputy Commissioner Barisal 4 Md. Moyazzem Hossain Additional Deputy Commissioner Perojpur 5 Md. Rabiul Haque Deputy Commissioner Patukhali 6 Md. Towfiq Mahbub Chowdhury Police Super Barisal 7 Md. Shamsuddin Ahmed Police Super Barguna 8 Zahidul Hoq (Sergeant) on Behalf of Police Super Perojpur 9 Md. Masud Alam Assistant Director, BRTA, Barisal Region, Barisal Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) 10 Sukumar Chandra Kar Superintendent Engineer Barisal 11 Md. Abdus Shaheed Project Director, RDP-25, LGED HQ Dhaka 12 Rabindranath Bapari Deputy Project Director, RDP-25 Barisal 13 Krishna Pada Sarker Deputy Director, RMSU Barisal 14 Md. Hemayet Hossain Executive Engineer Barisal 15 Khandaker Ali Noor Executive Engineer (Training) Barisal 16 Md. Najmul Alam Executive Engineer Barguna 17 Md. Abdul Malek Sarker Executive Engineer Bhola 18 Gopal Krishna Dibnath Executive Engineer Jhalokathi 19 Md. Nur Hossain Howlader Executive Engineer Perojpur 20 Abu Saleh Md. Hanif Executive Engineer Patuakhali 21 Md. Ruhul Amin Khan Assistant Engineer-1 Barisal 22 Sharif Md. Zamaluddin Assistant Engineer-2 Do 23 Mizanur Rahman Asst. Engineer, Mechanical Do 24 S.M Tayebur Rahman Assistant Engineer, DPD Office, RDP-25 Do 25 Khandaker Fokhrul Ahmed Assistant Engineer, RDP-25 Do 26 Sah Mohammed Assistant Engineer, SE Office Do 27 Md. Samadul Islam Assistant Engineer, RDP-25 Barguna 28 Dewan Md. Abdus Sabur Assistant Engineer, RDP-25 Patuakhali 29 Md. Mohir Uddin Sheik Assistant Engineer Bhola 30 Md. Harun-Or-Rashid Assistant Engineer-2 Perojpur 31 Md. Sultan Ahmed Assistant Engineer, RDP-25 Perojpur 32 Mohd. Mohsin Kabir Assistant Engineer Jhalokati 33 Md. Kabir Miah Upazila Engineer Agailjhara, Barisal 34 Nazmul Ahsan Khan Upazila Engineer Banaripara, Barisal 35 Md. Shahjahan Faraji Upazila Engineer Bakergonj, Barisal 36 Md. Fulkam Badshah Upazila Engineer Hizla, Barisal 37 Md. Tayeb Hossain Upazila Engineer Mehendiganj, Barisal

Sl. No. Name of the Participants Designation Posting Place/ Address 38 Md. Fajal Ahmmed Upazila Engineer (in charge) Muladi, Barisal 39 Md. Sibbir Ahmed Upazila Engineer Uzirpur, Barisal 40 Ahmmed Ali Upazila Engineer Sadar, Barguna 41 Md. Jamal Hossain Upazila Engineer Bamna, Barguna 42 Md. Adam Ali Howlader Upazila Engineer Betagi, Barguna 43 Abdul Mannan Upazila Engineer Amtoli, Barguna 44 Md. Harun-or-Rashid Upazila Engineer Patharghata, Barguna 45 Md. Siddiqur Rahman Upazila Engineer Sadar, Bhola 46 Md. Siddiqur Rahman Upazila Engineer Charfession, Bhola 47 Md. Abul Hasem Upazila Engineer Lalmohan, Bhola 48 Md. Sohiduzzaman Khan Upazila Engineer Monpura, Bhola 49 Sohodul Alam Upazila Engineer (in charge) Tajumuddin, Bhola 50 S. M. Zahid Hossain Upazila Engineer Sadar, Jhalokati 51 Md. Saidul Alam Upazila Engineer Kathalia, Jhalokati 52 M. M. Lutfor Rahman Upazila Engineer Rajapur, Jhalokati 53 Md. Mokhlesur Rahman Upazila Engineer Sadar, Patuakhali 54 Md. Abdus Sattar Howlader Upazila Engineer Bauphal, Patuakhali 55 Md. Shahjahan Upazila Engineer Dumki, Patuakhali 56 Md. Kamal Hossain Upazila Engineer (in charge) Galachipa, Patuakhali 57 Md. Eunus Upazila Engineer Dashmina, Patuakhali 58 Bidhan Chandra Somarder Upazila Engineer Sadar, Perojpur 59 Humayun Kabir Khan Upazila Engineer Nesarabad, Perojpur 60 Sk. Md. Abu Zakir Sekander Upazila Engineer Bhandaria, Perojpur 61 Md. Hanif Miah Upazila Engineer Nazirpur, Perojpur NGO Officials 62 Md. Nachar Uddin ExecutiveDirector, ASECED Bamna, Barguna 63 Md. Latif Forazi Executive Director, HOP Bamna, Barguna 64 H. M. Shahjahan Kabir Executive Director, Unnayan Prochasta Gournadi, Barisal 65 M. A. Barek Community Organizer, Unnayan Prochasta Gournadi, Barisal 66 Md. Shaha Alam Khalifa Director, Jhalokathi Development Society Sadar, Jhalokati 67 Md. Omar Faruque Durgapur Chunggapasha Somaj Kollayn Somitee Sadar, Perojpur 68 Mujibur Rahman Howlader Do Sadar, Perojpur School Teachers 69 Md. Kutubuddin Asst. Teacher, Gournadi Model Govt. Pri. School Gournadi, Barisal 70 Dilip Kumar Mukharjee Head Master, Pingalkathi High School Gournadi, Barisal 71 M. A. Bari Azad Head Master, Amjedpur Regi. Primary School Kalapara, Patuakhali 72 Md. Rafiqul Islam Headmaster, West Bapta Adarsha High School Sadar, Bhola 73 Madhab Chandra Nath Headmaster, Krishnakathi Govt. Primary Sadar, Jhalokati School 74 Md. Abdul Kader Headmaster, Jafrakhali High School Bamna, Barguna 75 Md. Sultan Ahmed Headmaster, Kalikabari Govt. Primary School Bamna, Barguna 76 Promath Ranjon Mandol Asst. Teacher, Tejdaskathi High School Sadar, Perojpur

Sl. No. Name of the Participants Designation Posting Place/ Address Union Parishad 77 Md. Altaf Hossain Chairman, Bukabunia UP Bamna, Barguna 78 Mrs. Khadija Alam UP Member, Bukabunia UP Bamna, Barguna 79 Mobarok Hossain Mollique Chairman, Basunda UP Sadar, Jhalokati 80 Mrs. Morgina Begum UP Member, Basunda UP Sadar, Jhalokati 81 Sekander Mridha Chairman, Nalcira UP Gournadi, Barisal 82 Mrs. Rashida Begum UP Member, Nalcira UP Gournadi, Barisal Other Officials 83 Md. Ziad Hasan Sergeant Barisal 84 Lukman Hossain Sergeant Barisal 85 Md. Moniruzzaman Executive Director, Aid Organization Barisal 86 AKM Khairuzzaman BRAC Representative/ Project Manager BRAC, Dhaka 87 Md. Azmot Ali BRAC Field Coordinator BRAC, Dhaka 88 Md. Shahanur Alam BRAC Field Coordinator BRAC, Dhaka Project Staff 89 Mr. R. Kuhnle Team Leader, IST Dhaka 90 Dr. R. Ahammed Deputy Team Leader, IST Barisal 91 Md. Selim MD & RSS, IST Barisal 92 Abul Hossain MD & RSS, IST Jessore 93 Munjur Morshed Local Government Specialist Barisal 94 Humayun Kabir Maintenance Specialist Barisal 95 Nuruzzaman Mia MD & RSO Barisal 96 B. Paul Local Government Officer Barisal 97 K. Bashar Maintenance & Monitoring Officer Barisal 98 Mr. Ian A Dilliway Team Leader, D &S Dhaka 99 Haider Farooq Deputy Team Leader, D &S Barisal 100 Md. Sirazul Islam Quality Control Engineer, D & S Barisal 101 Md. Zakir Hossain Field Resident Engineer, D & S Barisal 102 Md. Rafiqul Alam Field Resident Engineer, D & S Barguna 103 Paban Chandra Das Field Resident Engineer, D & S Bhola 104 Ranjit Karmokar Field Resident Engineer, D & S Jhalokati 105 Saiful Islam Field Resident Engineer, D & S Perojpur 106 Md. Rafiqul Karim Team Leader, RMSU, LGED Barisal